Today we are taking a look at what is arguably the most extreme Z87 motherboard money can buy. The new Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac boasts a sensational design loaded with features, such as the Realtek ALC1150 codec with TI NE5532 amplifier which supports quality headphones that have an impedance of up to 600 Ohms. There are boat loads of SATA 6Gb/s ports, tons of USB 3.0 ports and dual Intel Gigabit Network support plus 4-way support for either SLI or Crossfire, plus much much more...

Although not for everyone, there is still going to be plenty of users out there that will really appreciate what the Asrock Z87 Extreme11/ac has to offer. For those not interested in the LGA2011 platform, as they wish to seek out Intelís more up to date Haswell processors, the Z87 Extreme11/ac is the most feature packed LGA1155 board money can buy.

Posted on: 01/15/2014 09:19 PM
Thanks for the great review! Holy smokes 22 SATA ports!! Considering the whole package I would say 540$ looks like a bargain. I will seriously consider this board for a build, new CPUs don't leap that much in performance, the only components worth upgrading are GPUs and SSDs. With a board like this one can skip several new platforms and still be up to date.

faati2222

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Posted on: 01/24/2014 09:02 PM
Nice board, great features. I especially like 802.11/AC feature and extras that came within the box. But the high price is the main issue here.Great review also. Thanks.

Steven Walton

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Posted on: 04/13/2014 09:31 PM
Hi dandyuis those are roughly the same temps we got as well. 70 degrees is within safe limits. If you are worried use a case fan to feed it more air.

dandyuis

Posted on: 04/11/2014 01:28 PM
great review guys.

i do have a question, what temps are you getting with the chipset heat sinks.

the one next to the SSDs i am getting idle at 60 and load at 70

the one next to the CPU i am getting 34 and load at 45.

the first one seems to be too high and i know it is safe but still, did i get a bad chipset contact?